The professional drivers likeness to Borg, a super fictional sentient entity in the Star Trek series Voyager, is the ability to actually feel that the Truck (vehicle) is a part of them.
A driver feels every part of the road through his/her vehicle, being at one with this powerful machine is an ART developed with time and experience.
Drivers are more often individuals who dislike the confines of office or factory life, so they are far from Borg and the opposite of automaton in that respect, yet there is a kinship, but only in this ability which, is like an art and especially needed when the road conditions are bad.
Transport Cafe's are fewer than years ago; little chef and the like have swallowed many good Transport Cafes and Truck Stops. The small businessman with his transport cafe has all to often Disappeared from the roadside, now many mobile services are appearing, is this a new trend?
If you see Grahams Transport cafe M5 junction 24 on the Cafe list of this site, you will see the cabin construction of the original cafe in about 1940, also the today photograph. Some present day mobiles have become essentially static. Perhaps change is in progress also for them. This would depend on themselves, opportunity, local authorities, and you, the customer, professional drivers and travellers
I hope the below few words can be a calming influence on those who read this,,,
Tail-gate-ing is dangerous and we all know that. A good professional driver is in reality driving all the vehicles in front and behind him/her, as is possible.
Anticipation
what is the other fellow going to do.
There are a heck of a lot more inconsiderate car drivers, than there are truck drivers, that's because HGV driver's or any professional driver has to be better and of course, is more qualified.
HGV drivers know that we can usually anticipate another professional driver, but you CANNOT anticipate the idiot, also we must be careful by not getting to close to cars, even those that block your way in the second lane of the motorway. Flash them or whatever, but don’t tailgate, it makes us as bad as them
Report them to the police when you can at a services stop, or voice activated hands free mobile phone.
It can save lives
Be one of the best, don’t tailgate. Hoot like hell from afar, but don’t tailgate, someone loves you and everyone else on the road.
Truck Stops Transport Cafes Home Page. This will take you to the main entry page for this website, it has links to the other main pages. If you wish to look through the photo gallery you can go directly there with the next link below.
If you have arrived at this page from a search engine I suggest you click HERE next for the Photographs list page OTHERWISE
Use the back button on the top left hand corner of your browser, to fast return to the same place on the Photographs list page if you came from there,,, this makes it easy for you to look through the various Photographs in Britain pages. The main entry page (Truck Stops link above) has all the links except the Cafe and truck Stop pages, and the photo gallery pages which can be reached via their list pages,, which are on this main entry page.
Why not send your friend a link to this web site via e mail, it's easy.
Click the file menu in the top left hand corner.
Go to the send command.
Select either the send link or the send page command
after that the rest is easy or automatic.
